Director General, Service Delivery Transformation


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Details

Reference number

325974

Salary

£135,000 – £145,000
If you’re an existing Civil Servant, your salary will be agreed in line with the Civil Service pay rules in place on the date of your appointment.
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Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 3

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOJ

Type of role

Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Leeds, London

Job summary

The MoJ’s work spans criminal, civil, family, and administrative justice, and we are responsible for making new laws and safeguarding human rights. We work in partnership with other Government departments and agencies to serve the public, improve the justice system, and support victims of crime. We are also responsible for fostering a globally successful legal services sector which supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, and we lead on a number of constitutional issues.

Many of these services are delivered through our two largest executive agencies, Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). In total we have 34 agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies. We manage a significant budget and run some of the largest and most complex infrastructure and change programmes in Government.

To find out more about what we do visit our webpage. 

Job description

As the DG for the SDT Group you will create a strategic vision for modernising and digitising outdated and legacy systems, generating a coordinated plan across the MoJ and its agencies for transformation, and tracking delivery of this transformation.

You will be an integral part of the Department’s Executive Committee, playing an important role in wider purposeful leadership across the Department as part of our united MoJ Group culture. As DG Service Delivery Transformation, your specific responsibilities will include:

● Leading and bringing together the Department’s overall strategy on digital and other transformation, working closely with other members of the Executive Team.

● Overseeing development of an innovative digital offer across MoJ to support our ambition of a modern Justice System, whilst also updating existing systems critical to frontline delivery of services.

● Ensuring that the opportunities that digital and other operational delivery improvements offer fully inform priorities for future policy development in the Department, and working with the DG for Performance, Strategy and Analysis to make sure that digital delivery and data support the design and delivery of our public services.

● Overseeing delivery of the Justice Digital agenda, ensuring that strategic direction is clear, that capability is in place and the resources aligned to support MoJ’s ambitious digital programme.

● Overseeing the OPG, the LAA and the CICA, supporting the existing CEOs to deliver operational services and ongoing change and reform aspirations, including maximizing joint working with different agencies with MoJ. 

Person specification

Please refer to the Candidate Briefing
Alongside your salary of £135,000, Ministry of Justice contributes
£36,450 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Selection process details

Civil Service Recruitment process Civil Service recruitment processes at Director General level are regulated by the Civil Service Commission, and we follow clear guidelines to ensure that our recruitment is fair and open.

We also design our recruitment processes to reflect our values-based approach to HR (using staff engagement panels, for example) and to ensure that shortlisted candidates have the opportunity to meet key stakeholders for the role, before they join us. 

We expect the process for this role to be as follows:

  • The closing date for applications will be 23:55 on 5th December 2023.
  • A shortlist of the applications will take place during the week commencing 11 December 2023.
  • Shortlisted candidates will then:

            – Participate in a staff engagement panel.

            – Have the opportunity to meet with a senior MoJ leader.

            – Inputs from those steps will form the basis of a panel interview, chaired by Paul Kernaghan from the Civil Service Commission January 2024.

Other panel members at the interview will include but will not be limited to Antonia Romeo (Permanent Secretary MoJ, to whom this role reports.)

Full details will be provided to shortlisted candidates and, recognising that there are a number of steps in the process, we will do our best to arrange the sessions in a way that works for you. We hope that this process will be conducted in face-to-face sessions, but if you need any adjustments you can let us know.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Craig Nannestad
  • Email : craig.nannestad@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : craig.nannestad@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Attachments

Candidate Brief – DG SDT.docx Opens in new window (pdf, 2092kB)

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